...R Hanzlick, M.D. In 1986, the Centers for Disease and Prevention established the Medical Examiner and Coroner Information Sharing Program (MecISP) with four primary goals: 1) To improve the quality of death investigations in the United States and to promote more standardized practices concerning...

... of law-enforcement and other public-service agencies, medical professionals, and those within the forensic community. As such, the “death investigator” plays a crucial role in the investigation process. These front-line investigators, whether they be coroners, medical examiners, physicians, other medical...

... and medical examiners (death investigators). Certain types of deaths are often mentioned in statutes while others are inconsistently investigated in the various states. The majority of the U.S. population is served by death investigation that is organized on a local or district level, but often administered...